Kinetic Lotus

One tap, and the ripple does the rest. Set up a chain that blooms across the whole pond. A new puzzle every day, the same one for everyone.

Drop one catalyst. Watch the ripple do the rest.

Kinetic Lotus is a puzzle game about a pond that answers back. Every drop sends a ring of water travelling outward, one tile at a time, and everything it touches changes. Lilypads bloom into lotuses. Lotuses turn gold. Golden lotuses detonate and throw a fresh ring of their own, so a single well-placed drop can cascade across the entire board while you sit and watch it happen.

You only get a handful of drops. Where you put them is the whole game.

READ THE POND Nothing is random once the board is dealt. The ripple travels at a fixed pace, the tiers upgrade in a fixed order, and a chain reaction is something you set up on purpose rather than something you stumble into. Levels ask for four different things: reach a score, grow a number of golden lotuses, clear the stone slabs, or set off a set number of detonations. An opening that wins one of those will lose you the next.

Clearing a level is the easy part. Three stars is not.

THREE WAYS TO PLAY Campaign. A walk along a stone causeway over open water, with hand-tuned ponds and difficulty that arrives in spikes rather than one step at a time.

Daily. One puzzle, every day, the same one for everybody. The board is derived from the date itself, so no server decides it and nobody gets an easier draw than you. Keep a streak alive.

Endless. Generated ponds that pick up where the campaign ends and keep going as deep as you can take them.

FOUR PERKS, USED SPARINGLY Extra drops, for when the budget is one short. A seed, to plant a lilypad where the water is dead. A bomb that strikes everything within two tiles. And an undo, for the drop you regretted the instant you made it.

BUILT TO BE PLAYED BY ANYONE Reduced motion stops ripples and bursts from expanding. Colourblind-safe re-tints every plant and numbers each tier, so nothing depends on hue alone. Music, sound effects and haptics each get their own switch. None of it is buried three menus deep. It is all one tap from the board.

YOURS, AND OPTIONAL Sign in only if you want it. Back up your progress, or put your name on a leaderboard for campaign stars, endless depth, or today's daily. The game is complete without ever signing in, and it plays offline.

Free to play, with ads between some levels. A rewarded video can hand you extra drops or a life if you want one, and it is never required to finish a level.

A quiet pond, a fixed number of moves, and one good idea. Go and find it.